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Witness History Episodes

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    Roe v Wade

    In January 1973 abortion was legalised across the USA.

  2. The Warsaw ghetto

    On 18 January 1943 German soldiers began a final drive to empty the Polish capital of Jews

  3. The Great Brinks Robbery

    In 1950 a Boston gang stole over $2.5m and they almost got away with it.

  4. Vietnam draft pardon

    In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.

  5. Folsom Prison Blues

    In January 1968 the country legend Johnny Cash recorded a concert in a high-security jail.

  6. Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad

    In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to avert the first Gulf War.

  7. Zola and the Dreyfus affair

    In 1898 the novelist Emile Zola took up the cause of a Jewish prisoner - Alfred Dreyfus.

  8. The death of Emperor Hirohito

    When the Japanese Emperor died in 1989 it marked the end of an era.

  9. Crossing the Rubicon

    Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history.

  10. Charter 77

    Taking you back 35 years when an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia.

  11. Project Stormfury

    Fifty years ago the USA launched an ambitious attempt to control the weather.

  12. The Hollywood blacklist

    A list of radicals in the US entertainment industry was published more than 60 years ago.

  13. The capture of the USS Pueblo

    In January 1968 an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.

  14. Birth of the Euro

    How millions of Europeans celebrated the launch of the euro in 2002.

  15. US troops in Iraq

    All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.

  16. The Creation of Tetris

    One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984

  17. Enid Blyton and the BBC

    The difficult relationship between the BBC and the children's writer, Enid Blyton.

  18. The release of Sakharov

    In December 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.

  19. The sinking of the Scharnhorst

    She was one of Germany's greatest battleships during World War II.

  20. The Christmas Truce

    On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting.

  21. Billy Graham

    How the world's best known evangelist began preaching internationally.

  22. Concert for Bangladesh

    In 1971 the first big rock benefit gig was organised by former Beatle, George Harrison.

  23. The British Miners' strike

    Christmas 1984 - a time of hardship for the protesters against the closure of coal mines

  24. Spice Girls

    Christmas 1996 and the Spice Girls are number one. 'Girl Power' is taking over the world.

  25. Bangladesh wins independence

    An inside account of the moment Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.

  26. Kazakh uprising

    In December 1986 Kazakhs began protesting against Moscow's rule.

  27. ANC Bomb

    The ANC party took its first violent action in 1961, a bomb at municipal offices in Durban

  28. Manuel Noriega

    Twenty years ago the leader of Panama Manuel Noriega, was removed from power by the USA.

  29. The Treaty of Rome

    We take you back to the beginnings of the European project.

  30. The Mozote massacre

    In December 1981 hundreds of peasants were killed by the army in El Salvador.

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